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Dr. Mike Raupp, named a 2015 Fellow of the Entomological Society of America!

8/28/2015

Congratulations to Dr. Michael Raupp who was elected as a 2015 Fellow of the Entomological Society of America! Please read more about the official announcement here.

Jonathan Wang received 1st place presentation award

8/24/2015

Graduate student, Jonathan Wang, advised by Dr. Raymond St. Leger received the 1st place presentation award at the Society of Invertebrate Pathology 48th Annual Meeting held August 9-13, 2015 for his talk entitled " A Genome Wide Association Study of Resistance to Metarhizium anisopliae.

Entomology Recent Publications,Talks and Presentations

8/24/2015

Publications

Hsiao-Ling Lu, Jonathan B. Wang, Markus A. Brown, Christopher Euerle & Raymond J St. Leger. July 23, 2015. Identification of Drosophila mutants affecting defense to an entomopathogenic fungus. Scientific Reports. 5:12350.

Talks & Presentations

Gruner D.S. gave an oral presentation entitled “Landscape-level experimental decoupling of competing vertebrate insectivores in Hawaiian forest islands.” 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Honolulu, HI on July 16, 2015.

Leslie Pick gave a talk at the Tribolium satellite meeting of the Inaugural meeting of the Pan American Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology in Berkeley, CA on August 4, 2015.
Jie Xiang presented a poster on her work on Dermestes maculatutus as a new model system at the Inaugural meeting of the Pan American Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology in Berkeley, CA August 5-9, 2015.
Forde A.J. & D.S. Gruner gave a poster presentation entitled “Differential responses of arthropod communities in a dynamic marsh-mangrove ecotone.” Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Baltimore, MD on August 11, 2015.
Yu S.W., A.J. Forde, & D.S. Gruner gave a poster presentation entitled “Nutrient inputs and herbivores interactively influence black mangrove tolerance to damage.” Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Baltimore, MD on August 11, 2015.

Brian Lovett gave an oral presentation entitled “Semi-field trials and tribulations” at the Society of Invertebrate Pathology Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on August 12, 2015.

Brian Lovett gave an oral presentation entitled “GeoChip analysis of the soil microbial community in turf and winter wheat treated with genetically modified Metarhizium” at the Society of Invertebrate Pathology Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on August 12, 2015.

Brian Lovett gave an oral presentation entitled “Metarhizium as a multifactorial growth promoter” at the Society of Invertebrate Pathology Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on August 12, 2015.
Brian Lovett gave a poster presentation entitled “Comparative genomics of cold adapted Metarhizium frigidum” at the Society of Invertebrate Pathology Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on August 12, 2015.
Johnston C.A. and D.S. Gruner gave an oral presentation entitled “Preference and survival shape habitat use along a fluctuating wetland landscape.” Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Baltimore, MD on August 12, 2015.
Martinson, H, PD Venugopal, E Bergmann, P Shrewsbury, M Raupp. Drivers of host plant use for invasive stink bugs in heterogeneous habitats. Ecological Society of America National Meeting, Baltimore, MD on August 13, 2015.

Mike Raupp on MPT Direct Connection

8/24/2015

Dr. Michael Raupp, Professor of Entomology at the University of Maryland talks about summer's most unwanted guests; mosquitoes and ticks on Maryland Public Television, Direct Connection.

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SESYNC Researchers Publish Policy Commentary in Science

8/14/2015

Building engineered structures, such as dams and dikes, has been the conventional approach to water management. Some suggest that such "gray" infrastructure make way for "green" ecosystem-based approaches. Margaret Palmer, Director of the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) co-authored in support of managing water in a green way.

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Free Mini-Symposium sponsored event

8/12/2015

The Insect Genetic Technologies Research Coordination Network presents a free Mini-Symposium

The Department of Entomology sponsored event will be held Wednesday, August 19, 2015 at the Universities at Shady Grove. Three cutting-edge topics, Flies, Monarchs, and Mosquitoes, from three of the world's foremost authorities will be presented. There will be free food, free drinks, and free parking. For additional information and free registration, click on the button.

Mini-Symposium

Entomology/BEES former student makes the Washington Post

8/10/2015

Former graduate student of the Department of Entomology BEES program, Megan Paustian, research biologist who specializes in mollusks, specifically slugs, makes the Washington Post. Megan studied forest moths as a graduate student while working in a laboratory with a group of entomologists at the University of Maryland.

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Dr. Mike Raupp, named a 2015 Fellow of the Entomological Society of America!

Jonathan Wang received 1st place presentation award

Entomology Recent Publications,Talks and Presentations

Mike Raupp on MPT Direct Connection

SESYNC Researchers Publish Policy Commentary in Science

Free Mini-Symposium sponsored event

The Insect Genetic Technologies Research Coordination Network presents a free Mini-Symposium

Entomology/BEES former student makes the Washington Post

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